With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several objects in the Kuiper Belt, a distant region of icy debris that extends...
A team of researchers led by the University of Edinburgh has grown human egg cells (oocytes) — which were removed from ovary tissue at their earliest...
A study published in the journal EBioMedicine has shown the potentially negative impact of acetaminophen (paracetamol) — one of the most common medications...
An international team of scientists from Yunnan University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a new type of malleable, self-healing and...
1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua, the first asteroid of extrasolar origin identified in our Solar System, has had a violent past which is causing it to tumble around...
An international research team led by University of Manchester scientists has generated human kidney tissue within a living organism which is able to produce...
NASA has released an absolutely beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of PLCK G004.5-19.5, a massive cluster of galaxies in the...
Low doses of far ultraviolet C light can inactivate airborne influenza and other viruses without harming human tissues, according to a study published...
An unusual composite image created by ESO astronomers reveals the aftermath of a catastrophic collision between two similar disk galaxies, which happened...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of fossil fish from 90 million-year-old (Cretaceous period) deposits in Colombia. A paper reporting this...
Chimpanzees’ overall intelligence is correlated to their ability to exert self-control and delay gratification, according to a study published in the...
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are neither as old as suggested by previous molecular studies, nor as young as a literal interpretation of their fossil...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have produced this vivid image of a distant pair of interacting...
Viruses fall back to Earth via dust storms and precipitation, according to new research published in the International Society for Microbial Ecology Journal.
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After many years of experiments, physicists have observed that under extreme temperatures and pressures, water takes on a new form called superionic ice....
According to a new study published in the journal Hippocampus, spending too much time in dimly-lit environment may change the brain’s structure and hurt...
A remarkable tailed arachnid found in the mid-Cretaceous (approximately 100 million years ago) Burmese amber of Myanmar documents a key transition stage...
A team of linguists from Lund University in Sweden announced this week they have identified an endangered minority language known as Jedek that is spoken...
